Rebellion – How can the resistance win?

REBELLION
Building grassroots resistance and discussing alternatives for austerity Europe

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Rebellion is a one day event on austerity and resistance hosted by the Anticapitalist Initiative, including political debate on the major questions confronting left wing activists, spoken word performance poetry, food and music.

We want to make the event as participatory as possible, so we won’t be having the usual “top table” format familiar to meetings of the left, but an open floor for debate and reflection.

Following shortly after the elections in Greece and with growing turmoil in financial markets across the world, we will be discussing alternatives to austerity Europe and how we can fight back.

13.30 – 15.00
Europe at a turning point? The meaning of the Greek elections
with Dimitrios Tzanakopoulos, Syriza, the Coalition of Radical Left in Greece that stormed to second place in the elections, very nearly taking power. He will be joined by Eugene Michail, a Greek writer, academic and contributor at AntiUK.

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15. 15 – 17.00
Building grassroots campaigns and resistance in an age of austerity
With anti-privatisation campaigners in the NHS, activists from the new grassroots teachers’ initiative in the NUT, Maia Pal, an eyewitness to the huge student revolt in Quebec, and trade unionists fighting the sell out by the union leaders on public sector pensions.

17.00 – 17.15 Break

17.15 – 18.30
What role and future for the Anticapitalist Initiative? How do we build a new type of left?
Activists from the initiative discuss the future of the project